Harry Callahan, Early Work

Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago

Tags: Architecture, Black & White, Figurative, People

About the artist

Harry M. Callahan (American, b. 1912 – 1999) Harry Morey Callahan was one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century and is best known for utilizing the objectivity of straight photography to produce works that reinvented reality, “to charge it with personal, even mythic, resonance.” (Davis) Callahan was the son of a Midwestern … continue reading

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